Won it in a Dynadot auction on Friday as the only bidder — just transferred into my account.
In case you didn’t know...
Emoji (and pictograph) domains in .com are no longer allowed — ICANN/Verisign banned new ones over a decade ago. But a handful were grandfathered in from the early 2000s, making them ultra-rare digital relics. Only ~30–40 exist — most were Wingdings/symbols that later got mapped to modern emoji.
But ☻ (U+263B) was different — it was left out of the emoji update. So while others became full-color emoji, ☻ remained a pictograph — a pure Unicode symbol, not keyboard-accessible, and never part of the emoji set. That makes ☻☻.com especially unique as a legacy holdover from the pre-emoji era.
Works in all browsers. Punycode: xn--84ha.com.
List of all known emoji-style .com domains:
emoji-domains.medium.com/all-the-dotcom-emoji-domains-5ad2f638b090
Thoughts?
In case you didn’t know...
Emoji (and pictograph) domains in .com are no longer allowed — ICANN/Verisign banned new ones over a decade ago. But a handful were grandfathered in from the early 2000s, making them ultra-rare digital relics. Only ~30–40 exist — most were Wingdings/symbols that later got mapped to modern emoji.
But ☻ (U+263B) was different — it was left out of the emoji update. So while others became full-color emoji, ☻ remained a pictograph — a pure Unicode symbol, not keyboard-accessible, and never part of the emoji set. That makes ☻☻.com especially unique as a legacy holdover from the pre-emoji era.
Works in all browsers. Punycode: xn--84ha.com.
List of all known emoji-style .com domains:
emoji-domains.medium.com/all-the-dotcom-emoji-domains-5ad2f638b090Thoughts?
